UM-Sub-Wy Locality 7 (Paleogene of the United States)

Where: Sublette County, Wyoming (43.3° N, 110.4° W: paleocoordinates 48.9° N, 92.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Chappo Member (Wasatch Formation), Clarkforkian (56.2 - 54.9 Ma)

• "early Wasatchian-Graybull equivalent (probably early Graybull)... Hoback formation" (Dorr 1958) but Clarkforkian and Chappo Member according to later authors

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; concretionary, ferruginous, brown, silty shale

• "dark brown, silty shale. Ironstone concretions were especially abundant near and against the bones" (Dorr 1958)

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UMMP

Collection methods: quarrying,

• collected by "hand removal" (quarrying) (Dorr 1958)

Primary reference: J. A. Dorr, Jr. 1958. Prouintatherium, new uintathere genus, earliest Eocene, Hoback Formation, Wyoming, and the phylogeny of Dinocerata. Journal of Paleontology 32(3):506-516 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 15076: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "Waterworn fragments of large turtles are common... A few internal molds of gastropods were found in the quarry matrix" (Dorr 1958)
Mammalia
 Allotheria -
Multituberculata indet.1 Cope 1884 multituberculate
 Dinocerata - Prodinoceratidae
Probathyopsis praecursor3 Simpson 1929 uintathere
 Cimolesta - Coryphodontidae
Coryphodon proterus4 Simons 1960 pantodont
"near C. testis"
 Macroscelidea - Apheliscidae
Haplomylus cf. simpsoni2 Rose 1981 elephant shrew
 Tribosphenida - Phenacodontidae
Phenacodontidae indet.1 Cope 1881 condylarth
Reptilia
 Testudines -
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail